Who was involved? Louis Riel and the Métis. What causes the Red River Resistance?
The arrival of the surveyors, the fear that the Canadian government was going to take over the Métis land. The National Métis Committee
The National Métis Committee was formed a week after one of the Métis stepped on a surveyors chain, stopping the surveyors ability to work, which happened in October of 1869 The Provisional Government John A. Macdonald appointed William McDougall the Lieutenant governor of the NW Territories, and the first thing that the National Métis Committee did was tell him that he was not welcome in their land. McDougall paid no attention and the next day The NMC (National Métis Committee) took over Fort Garry. The Métis were willing to fight for their rights to be upheld, but they were not about to rebel against the government and would agree to confederation if the rights they requested we respected. Riel decided to ensure the Métis had a voice in the government by creating a provisional government. This let the Red River people negotiate and agree to agree to confederation. Regardless of agreement to confederation, Macdonald decided to hold off on the transfer of Rupert’s Land until all matters could be resolved. He sent a letter to McDougall explaining that he should not do anything, but before the letter was received, McDougall crossed the border and proclaimed that he was the governor of the NW Territories. This mistake cause Riel’s government to become the legal government with “sovereign rights’ and the government had the right to barter with the Canadian government. Riel Takes Action Riel was afraid that the Canadian Party was ready to take over the Red River Settlement. In December of 1869 he made a move. A bunch of armed Métis arrested John Shultz and confined him and his supporters in the upper part of Fort Garry. When Macdonald heard of this he sent Donald Smith, one of the higher ups in the Hudson’s Bay Company, to negotiate. Smith showed up in Red River in January of 1870, and he and Riel decided that the provisional government should send reps’ to Ottawa to do some negotiating themselves. Whilst this was happening Shultz tried to make a break for it and escaped from Fort Garry, attempted to free other prisoners, but was stopped, and a man named Thomas Scott was later executed by Riel. Lots of people were upset about what happened to Scott, but this upset was the end of the threat of war between the Métis and the Canadian Party. This also helped in the creation of Manitoba. Manitoba Is Created John Schultz beat the Métis delegation to Ontario and got a giant wave of violent anti-French, anti-Catholic, and anti-Métis hype. He made Scott seem like a great martyr, and made Riel seem like an evil person. Macdonald had sent a large militia of 1200 to Red River to keep the peace, instructing Wolseley to treat Riel’s government as if it were not a real one, even though he himself had said that it was. Riel fled to the United States and remained there in exile.
Louis Riel and the Métis.
What causes the Red River Resistance?
The arrival of the surveyors, the fear that the Canadian government was going to take over the Métis land.
The National Métis Committee
The National Métis Committee was formed a week after one of the Métis stepped on a surveyors chain, stopping the surveyors ability to work, which happened in October of 1869
The Provisional Government
John A. Macdonald appointed William McDougall the Lieutenant governor of the NW Territories, and the first thing that the National Métis Committee did was tell him that he was not welcome in their land. McDougall paid no attention and the next day The NMC (National Métis Committee) took over Fort Garry. The Métis were willing to fight for their rights to be upheld, but they were not about to rebel against the government and would agree to confederation if the rights they requested we respected. Riel decided to ensure the Métis had a voice in the government by creating a provisional government. This let the Red River people negotiate and agree to agree to confederation. Regardless of agreement to confederation, Macdonald decided to hold off on the transfer of Rupert’s Land until all matters could be resolved. He sent a letter to McDougall explaining that he should not do anything, but before the letter was received, McDougall crossed the border and proclaimed that he was the governor of the NW Territories. This mistake cause Riel’s government to become the legal government with “sovereign rights’ and the government had the right to barter with the Canadian government.
Riel Takes Action
Riel was afraid that the Canadian Party was ready to take over the Red River Settlement. In December of 1869 he made a move. A bunch of armed Métis arrested John Shultz and confined him and his supporters in the upper part of Fort Garry. When Macdonald heard of this he sent Donald Smith, one of the higher ups in the Hudson’s Bay Company, to negotiate. Smith showed up in Red River in January of 1870, and he and Riel decided that the provisional government should send reps’ to Ottawa to do some negotiating themselves. Whilst this was happening Shultz tried to make a break for it and escaped from Fort Garry, attempted to free other prisoners, but was stopped, and a man named Thomas Scott was later executed by Riel. Lots of people were upset about what happened to Scott, but this upset was the end of the threat of war between the Métis and the Canadian Party. This also helped in the creation of Manitoba.
Manitoba Is Created
John Schultz beat the Métis delegation to Ontario and got a giant wave of violent anti-French, anti-Catholic, and anti-Métis hype. He made Scott seem like a great martyr, and made Riel seem like an evil person. Macdonald had sent a large militia of 1200 to Red River to keep the peace, instructing Wolseley to treat Riel’s government as if it were not a real one, even though he himself had said that it was. Riel fled to the United States and remained there in exile.